Creative Contexts & Practice

This module focuses on developing your professional skills as a reflective science communicator working with care in a range of cultural contexts, including digital environments. You will be guided to focus on developing creative habits and ethical strategies to exchange ideas and skills, drawing on real world contexts through problem-based learning. You will be encouraged and supported to situate your work and develop your professional identity within a professional context and community of practice, reaching out to learn from professional science communicators whilst fostering the potential to continue your development beyond the life of the course.

Dialogues and seminars will cover:

Developing Your Creative and Digital Practice as a Science Communicator:

Situating Science in Society

Science and the City

Creative Digital Practice as a Research Methodology

Cultural infrastructure: bridges between the STEM and the non-STEM community

Designing Your Digital Footprint: digital scholarship, open science, the rights of citizens in the digital age